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Prevention and control in the care homes. in fact, the data published since all of this has shown that the best estimate from public health england is that 1.6% of the transmission into care homes came through the streets and in fact what this tells you is that sadly the biggest route of covid—19 into care homes is through the community. —— came through this route. so the most important thing was a staff testing which we introduced as soon as we had been testing capacity to do so. certainl...

And so it was staff testing that was the most important thing for keeping people safe. when dominic cummings, the prime ministers former top adviser, gave his evidence two weeks ago, he accused the health secretary of lying and said he should have been sacked for his handling of the pandemic. did you ever say anything to the prime minister that you knew not to be true? no. thank you. the best thing to say is that government has operated better over the past six months. which just happens to be w...

Now while the government rhetoric was we put a shield around care homes and blah blah, was complete nonsense. quite the opposite putting shield around them, we sent people with covid back to the care homes. this was the health secretarys response. we set out a policy that people would be tested when tests were available. and then i set about building the testing capacity to be able to deliver on that. sadly, the biggest route oh covid—i9 into care homes is through the community. its through pe...

Protective equipment. and ministers, he said, were making decisions based on incomplete or wrong information. one crucial misunderstanding was that the virus could only be spread by those with symptoms. mr hancock remembers seeing some evidence that this wasnt the case. i bitterly regret that i didnt overrule that scientific advice at the start and say, "we should proceed on the basis that there is asymptomatic transmission until we know that there isnt rather than the other way round." and what...

HAWAI‘I COVID-19 JOINT INFORMATION CENTER DAILY NEWS DIGEST Jan. 29, 2021 Posted on Jan 29, 2021 in COVID-19, COVID-19 News Releases, Latest News, Newsroom Department of Health: Daily Preliminary Vaccine Administration Updates The chart below will be included in the Daily News Digest, Monday-Friday. A weekly summary with final vaccination numbers will be included each Wednesday. https://health.hawaii.gov/coronavirusdisease2019/what-you-should-know/current-situation-in-hawaii/#vaccine 115 New ...